VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com)

More than $8 billion a year is spent on diversity training which a Harvard professor believes is largely ineffective. So later this year the NFL will also try using new VR scenarios from Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. "We want to be known as the best place to work," says NFL vice president Troy Vincent," while Dropbox's head of diversity says she's also had conversations about eliminating bias in job interviews by conducting "blind" interviews using avatars. The Stanford lab's scenarios place users in unsettling situations -- for example, angry harassment by white avatars while the user's avatar is black. "I'm not saying, 'Put on a VR goggle and you've solved racism'," says the Stanford lab's director. "But I'm optimistic it can help."

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SJW trollfest

[Anonymous Coward]

Who manage the diversity of diversity managers?

Re:Sexism and Racism

[PopeRatzo]

Heck, just by saying I'm a Republican, I'm automatically called a racist by many.

People who do that are just going by probability.